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Saturday, March 24

Recreate the 2/17/12 Silver Mt Zion Show in Your Own Mind at Setlist.fm


The set list, with full album track links, has been assembled here.

Thursday, March 22

Check Out "Wish You Were Here: The Buffalo Avant-garde in the 1970s" at the Albright Knox


On view Friday, March 30-Sunday, July 8, 2012:
Featuring more than three hundred works made almost exclusively in Buffalo during the 1970s, Wish You Were Here is structured thematically around the venues and organizations that galvanized the period: the Albright-Knox Art Gallery; Artpark; the Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Arts (CEPA); the Center for Media Study at the University at Buffalo and its downtown, independent counterpart, Media Study/Buffalo; the experimental music of the Creative Associates from UB's Center of the Creative and Performing Arts, as well as the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra; the English Department at UB and the synchronous grassroots poetry movement; and Hallwalls.
Read about it here.

Wednesday, March 21

Watch Luvstep Tour Recap (Dirty South Joe B@B Flufftronix w/ Clicks & Whistles)... there's some Buffalove in there.

Check it out. Footage from DJ sets by Dirty South Joe & Flufftronix aka Luvstep w/special guest Clicks & Whistles, following the release of Luvstep 3. 2/14/2012-2/18/2012. 

Included songs:
 Hellfire Machina feat. Infuze - Good Love
. Kaskade feat. Mindy Gledhill - Eyes (Alvin Risk Remix). 
Usher - Climax (prod. Diplo)

. Shot by Petey Clicks and Fluff in Buffalo NY, Indianapolis IN, Virginia Beach VA and Philadelphia PA. Edited by Fluff. Huge thanks to all the venues, promoters, other performers and of course THE FANS. ❤ ❤ ❤ Luvstep played Soundlab on Valentine's Day, 2/14/12.

Tuesday, March 20

Read "Percussive pianists: UB students’ performance features a retrospective of John Cage’s music for ‘prepared piano"


By Mary Kunz Goldman for the Buffalo News:
"Late on a sunny afternoon, when sane people would be outside, UB pianist Eric Huebner and three of his students are in Lippes Concert Hall gathered around a beat-up Steinway grand piano.

It is not just any old Steinway grand.

Wedged under and between its strings are…objects. Felt. Bolts. Oddments.
On Wednesday, Huebner and his students are performing an hourlong retrospective of John Cage’s Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano. And preparations are finally complete.

Cage (1912-1992) was known for his experimentation. One of his most famous innovations was the “prepared piano”—a piano adjusted to produce unusual
sounds.

It was born out of necessity. Cage came up with the idea in the 1940s so he could get the sound of a percussion ensemble. (In keeping with his shoestring spirit, Wednesday’s concert is free.)

The composer was working a lot with dance troupes, and dance, along with Indian philosophy, inspired him. There are shards of the Baroque — trim little ornaments, tiny trills — and dance rhythms. The items among the piano strings produce soft jingles and gong sounds. There are African beats and twinkling treble lines.

You could debate whether the pieces are actually music, or if they are instead montages of sound effects. Arguments over that break out frequently on YouTube.

You could also call prepared piano “quaint.” UB, after all, has a history of the avant-garde. Cage himself was no stranger to our town.
But there is no denying the instrument’s entertainment value. And if the prepared piano never caught on among other composers, Huebner says, that is because Cage owned the concept.

“Cage got there first,” he says. “He was like an actor in a TV show.”"
Read the rest here.

Get Your Tickets for Tokimonsta April 19 at Soundlab


From the press release:
Born and raised in the South Bay area of Los Angeles, TOKiMONSTA (Jennifer Lee) was an unfocused pupil of classical piano. However, she has come to use this background to create vast textural soundscapes through utilizing live instruments, percussion, digital manipulation, and dusty noise. Through her musical creations, she is able to fuse vintage sounds with progressive styles into something unique.

Her music has been recognized and praised by the very best in avant-garde and mainstream media. TOKiMONSTA has been featured on various large scale radio programs such as: BBC Radio1, NPR, BBC World Service, J Wave (JP), Studio Brussels (BE), Radio Nova (FR), KCRW (USA) to name a few. Subsequently, she has been featured in print by DJ Mag, Pitchfork, XLR8R, URB, Paper, LA Times, SPIN, and more. LA Weekly ranked her as 2010's #1 female DJ in Los Angeles. Additionally, Resident Adviser did a full feature on her for their "Breaking Through," an RA series which focuses on the next big artist.

Not only has she caught ears of many as a different dimension of Los Angeles-based music, TOKiMONSTA is notably the first female to join crew/label BRAINFEEDER headed by Flying Lotus- celebrated as the most exciting LA music label by LA Weekly. In addition, she is also a 2010 Red Bull Music Academy alumni, allowing her to join the ranks of other elite taste maker alumni.

Her live performance is engaging as well as intricate-using a laptop, other pieces of instrumentation and multimedia to orchestrate a truly interactive experience. She is a fearless and energetic performer who tours regularly around the world from LA to NY, London to Tel Aviv, Singapore to Tokyo. Some notable past performance were at DEMF, Sonar Barcelona. With the positive exposure and increasing movement surrounding her, she is scheduled to perform at Coachella, WMC, SXSW, Sonar Tokyo, Wakarusa, and more in 2012.

Sunday, March 11

Contribute to "Tactical Sound Garden: Buffalo"

From the Squeaky Wheel Buffalo Media Resources general email: Calling Buffalo Sound Artists: Come help shape the sonice topography of the Buffalo Waterfront!  The Tactical Sound Garden is coming to Buffalo as part of the 2011-2012 Fluid Culture program of the UB Humanities Institute. Join artist/architect Mark Shepard for a workshop focused on producing sounds to be planted in a virtual sound garden along the Buffalo waterfront. Interested? Please send an email introducing yourself with links to samples of your sound work to buffalo@tacticalsoundgarden.net by March 15th.
As space and resources are limited we may not be able to accommodate everyone, but we'll certainly try!
Selected participants will be notified by March 22th.

Thursday, March 1

Read "An Interview with Shigeto"


By Cory Perla for Artvoice:
Sometimes it feels like the EDM scene has lost some substance, but then an artist like Zach Saginaw a.k.a. Shigeto comes along and puts out a piece of music so personal and genuine that it revitalizes a genre. That record is Lineage, his latest “mini LP” released last month on Ghostly International. Saginaw uses his instinctual drumming skills to combine live percussion with jazz structures, hip hop tempos, and atmospheric flares that sonically express the sorrowful story of his ancestors, including his great grand-father Shigeto. This week I chatted with the Ann Arbor, Michigan native about his live performance style, the meaning behind Lineage, and the source of his urbanized soundscapes, as he worked on a new track at his home in Brooklyn.
Read the interview here.

Read "Parts and Labor Bid Farewell"


I am sad. I have nothing but fond memories of the shows Parts and Labor played at both Soundlabs starting back in the old warehouse in our first year (2002). In fact, they played the very first show at the current space, as a kind of pre-opening where they set up on the floor a week before the stage was installed. They stayed at my house a bunch of times and really were one of the pillars of what we were trying to do, as the "brooklyn" sound evolved, over the course of the last decade, from experimental art-rock made by lower east siders and outsider artists who couldn't afford Manhattan anymore to a kind of hipster brand that still produces great things but well you know. Anyway, P&L played their last show last Friday, with Neptune and Oneida, 2 other Soundlab veterans. In fact, the first time Neptune and P&L ever played together was at the old Soundlab in 2002. Both groups were looking for dates around the same time, so we put them together on a bill that also included sound/video duo Lo/Vid, who were responsible for instituting tons of art/music/noise events in NYC at the time. Afterward, P&L, Lo/Vid and Neptune exchanged numbers. They had crisscrossed each other's tours and knew each other by reputation but had never intersected. After this fateful night in Buffalo, they all played together regularly.

Here is the story from the Village Voice blog Sound of the City "Waste of Paint" by Jamie Peck:
"Friday we solemnly visited 285 Kent for Parts and Labor's sold-out farewell show, which featured strong opening sets from pals Neptune and Oneida. P+L has been one of the great workhorses of New York's scene for the past ten years, putting out consistently good albums and touring extensively without ever reaping the financial rewards of colleagues like the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and TV On the Radio. This type of dedication inspires a special type of love in scene diehards (see also: the Melvins), and as such the place was packed front to back with everyone who'd ever appreciated them over the years, including BJ Warshaw's parents. The two-hour-plus show included songs and members from every era of the band, plus some horns and an actual bagpipe player, and at one point they passed around a video camera so the proceedings could be shot from every angle by members of the audience. "Pretty much everyone I love or have loved for the past ten years is in this room tonight, so, with too many people to thank, thanks everyone in this room for being here for us," Warshaw said before launching into an epic encore in which all four drummers played at once. In the end they demolished the drum kit, the cardboard backdrop, and the paper stalactites hanging from the ceiling as BJ made feedback with his bass. "Thank you so fucking much," he said before making his exit. Dan Friel lingered a bit over his processors, drawing out the noise and the moment for as long as possible."
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